Nigeria’s Al-Farouq, Ezeli Make NBA Africa Team

Nigeria’s senior national basketball team player, Al-Farouq Aminu, and Golden State Warriors star Festus Ezeli have been selected to play for Africa in the first ever NBA Africa tournament billed to hold in South Africa on August 1.

Aminu recently signed a four-year deal worth $30m with National Basketball Association side, Portland Trail Blazers, in the United States of America.

The tournament which will pit African players against players from other parts of the world playing in the NBA, is the first to be held on African soil and the idea is to make every part of the world feel what the NBA is all about.

The game scheduled for the Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa, is organised in support of boys and girls Clubs of South Africa, SOS Children’s Villages Association of South Africa and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.